EPISODE 481First broadcast ... 1984 (Melbourne)Broadcast on Channel 5 Friday 05 March 1999 04:40 DVD release: volume 31 disc 1 (AUS) Duration: 0:46:05 |  |
 Meg ~ Elspeth Ballantyne Judy ~ Bobbitt Joan ~ Maggie Kirkpatrick Ann ~ Gerda Nicholson Myra ~ Anne Phelan Reb ~ Janet Andrewartha Dennis ~ Nigel Bradshaw Diedre ~ Anne Charleston Angela ~ Kylie Foster Bobbie ~ Maxine Klibingaitis Marlene ~ Genevieve Lemon Dot ~ Alethea McGrath Heather ~ Victoria Nicolls Joyce ~ Joy Westmore Phillip ~ Steve Kuhn Barbara ~ Myra de Groot Major ~ Carl Bleazby Shane ~ Robert Summers Gordon ~ Jim Ewing Geoffrey Johnson ~ John Murphy Lou ~ Louise Siversen Frances ~ Wanda Davidson Alice ~ Lois Collinder Lorna ~ Barbara Jungwirth Vera Rogers ~ May Howlett Det. Insp. Rouse ~ Paul Karo Doris Cruickshank ~ Nicki Paull Peter Wright ~ Alan Pentland ){kind=small} Mr Montgomery ~ Chris Waters Mrs Taylor ~ Hazel Campbell Debbie Peters ~ Anna Crawford Social Worker ~ Andrea Swifte ){kind=small} News Interviewer ~ Lindsay Edwards Backpack Cameraman ~ Julian Noel Policeman No. 1 ~ Bill Binks ){kind=small} Policeman No. 2 ~ Ian Sprake ){kind=small} UNCREDITEDThe anonymous caller ~ who sounds like the actor who later plays Brian Lowe, though he is supposed not to be the same.Another cheeky Kean/Dean shot | Heather tells Ann about Marie's threats and admits the truth of the allegations about drugs, but denies any involvement in the escape. Ann wants to know why Marie has waited until now to make her accusation and wonders if there is anyone who could be using Marie to get back at Heather. Heather says she should be able to make a shrewd guess who that might be. Joan tells Shane she will visit him in the home and his father confronts Joan for making him lose his son. Dennis says goodbye to the women in the rec room while the dance marathon is still going on: Bobbie asks him to try to visit Cass. In another tear-jerking farewell scene, Shane gives Nicky to the Major to look after, at Joan's suggestion, until he gets a foster family who will let him have a dog. Joan decides she will stay at Wentworth rather than go with her father to live in Forbes. Judy has a dizzy spell that causes Bobbie to worry about her health. Mrs Rodgers assumes that Heather's mood is to do with Dennis, but Heather tells her it's because she's worried about losing her job. Alice sprains her ankle, and Dot takes her place on the dance team, though she changes partners so she doesn't have to dance with Marlene. Dennis tells Heather to let him know when she's made up her mind whether she's more concerned with her job or their relationship. Heather accuses Joan of setting her up through her friend Cynthia at Blackmoor, but Joan just sneers that she only has herself to blame if she's in trouble. During a break in the marathon, Angel tries to charm Phil with some outrageously untrue and flattering remarks. Meg tells Ann about Joan's friend Cynthia Drewin, now at Blackmoor. Ann can't start her car and the policeman watching her finds it has been tampered with - the brake line has been cut. Reb refuses to help Heather get rid of Joan by telling her the truth about who attacked her, and tells her she'll do it her own way. Angel overhears Phil and Meg discussing a date. Diedre stands up for Reb when Joan issues a veiled threat to her and is told not to bother by both Reb and Joan. Barbara Krantz persuades Ann not to stop the marathon for the sake of Dot and Judy, and her speech telling them the Governor thinks they should stop makes them defiant enough to be determined to carry on. Doris shows Dennis a letter saying that his mother is ill and says they should do the decent thing and go back together to visit her. Reb sees Lou and Frances tormenting Diedre in the shower block but tells them to carry on, as she doesn't care. Ann tells Meg the police are questioning a suspect picked up breaking into her flat. [Meg comments it would be "too much of a coincidence" for him not to be connected to the threatening letters. Apparently not...] After Lou has insisted she has an extra large helping at dinner, Reb salts Diedre's food then pushes her face in it. Dennis tells Heather he has to go back to England to see his sick mother. The sponsor arrives with a cheque that the gate guard wants to open until the PR lady vouches for everyone. Dot collapses with only ninety minutes to go. Angel calls in Peter Wright and tells him to rape Meg to "turn her off men for a while", or she will tell the police about his other rapes. Heather vows to take Joan with her if she has to leave. The women break the record and have another half hour to go to win the sponsor's money when an anonymous caller phones the prison and tells Ann he has planted a bomb because of the "degradation" forced on the women by taking part in the dance marathon.
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